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I'm a bit claustrophobic and the video made me uncomfortable. I understand the financial and time saving reasons, but between an isolated place like this, and a shared place with roommates, I would pick roommates any day of the week.

In Japan, with it's work culture of long work hours and most people working at the same office for very long time, these apartments certainly makes sense.

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It makes just as much sense for them to live in coffin size spaces with food funnelled in tubes. Where does this absurdity end? "Making sense" and accepting that you need to cater to real humans in a society are two things that are rationally far apart. It doesn't "make sense" to pretend that human needs of space have no consideration.

>In Japan, with it's work culture of long work hours and most people working at the same office for very long time

This is not something that should be venerated above all else. It should be condemned.

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